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The Pre-Romanesque art and architecture of the Iberian Peninsula (inSpanish, arte prerrománico; in Portuguese, arte pré-românica) refers to the art of Spain and Portugal after the Classical Age and before Romanesque art and architecture; hence the term Pre-Romanesque.
Visigothic art, the art of the Visigoths to 711, is usually classified as Migration Period art by art historians to emphasis its Germanic connections and origins; but can also classified as Pre-Romanesque, particularly in Spain, to emphasis its lineage in Spanish history.
This article is missing information about non-Christians. Most of the architecture of the medieval Iberian Peninsula was made by multireligious societies, including Christians, but also many Muslims and Jews; this list excludes architecture made by non-Christians. Please expand the article to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (October 2022)
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The main styles (based on chronological and geographic considerations) of the Iberian Pre-Romanesque were:
InCatalonia and Aragon, a style ancestral to the Romanesque developed early in parallel with the region of Lombardy and it has become common to refer the formerly called late Catalan Pre-Romanesque as "first Romanesque" after the suggestions of Josep Puig i Cadafalch.